Canastota Public Library

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Every
Tuesday at 5pm, the Canastota Public Library shows a movie in the Lawson
Community Room. These are scheduled for
an adult audience. In November, we are
showing some classic favorites and the movie themes are political in the
beginning of the month and turn more towards the holidays later in the month.
The following movies will be shown:

Tuesday,
November 8-“The American President” was a 1995 release and stars Michael
Douglas, Annette Benning, Martin Sheen and many other talented actors. In this movie, the president has a
girlfriend…will he get re-elected? The
movie is rated PG-13

Tuesday,
November 15- We continue our political themes with “Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington.” In 1939, this classic was
released and we continue to enjoy it every time we get to see it! Jimmy Stewart
plays a naïve man who is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. The film also stars Jean Arthur and Claude
Rains.

Tuesday,
November 22- “Miracle on 34th Street” is sure to get you thinking
about the holidays! In this classic, a
young lawyer defends an imprisoned Santa.
It stars Edmund Given and Maureen O’Hara.

Tuesday,
November 29- “It’s a Wonderful Life” from 1946 stars Jimmy Stewart and Donna
Reed. In this film, an angel helps a
frustrated businessman!

We
hope you stop in on a Tuesday evening to take in a movie at the library. No reservations are needed.

The
Canastota Public Library is located at 102 W. Center Street in Canastota,
NY.

Friday, September 30, 2016

The
Friends of the Canastota Public Library are busy preparing for this year’s
annual Book Sale. The sale, which will
be held October 27, 28 and 29, is a highlight of autumn in the Canastota
community.

“We’ve
had many local residents donate books to us this year. Our Friends have been working almost daily to
sort and catalog these for the sale,” noted Liz Metzger, Director of the
library. The last day for donations for
this annual sale will be October 15 to ensure that volunteers will be able to
sort through the donations.

Volunteers
make this event a special one for the library.
The Friends of the Library is made up of volunteers who have helped to
prepare for the sale and also work the many hours for the sale. Raffle baskets are designed by some volunteers
and donated in an effort to earn additional revenues. As well, a local organization, Ralston Supply
Company will provide the tables needed to hold this event.

Although
the library has an ongoing book sale, this sale offers shoppers a chance to
meet with old friends and purchase from a great selection of books, VHS tapes,
Audio Tapes and CDs. Library
commemorative items, such as book bag totes and note cards will also be
available. We even have homemade cookies and coffee on hand while you shop!

The
money raised through this sale is always used to benefit the library’s
programs, collection or enhance the building and services that the library
offers. In previous years, the money
raised has been used to purchase new blinds and curtains for the Carnegie Room,
a dishwasher for the community kitchen and assistance in purchasing the laptop
computers that patrons may use throughout the library. A portion of the funds raised during last
year’s book sale was also earmarked for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library to
offset the cost of mailing books to those youngsters in the program.

Friday, August 12, 2016

The Canastota Public Library is
joining hundreds of other libraries who offer the “1000 Books Before
Kindergarten” Challenge! As parents, we
all want to see our children succeed. A
great way to do that is to read to your child.
Studies have shown that reading to children activates the parts of a
preschooler’s brain that helps them with mental imagery and understanding
narrative—both of which are key for the development of language and literacy.

The concept is simple and the
rewards of this challenge are priceless!
Read a book (any book) to your newborn, infant or toddler. The goal is to read 1,000 books together
before your little one begins kindergarten.
If you read just one book a night to your child, at the end of the year,
you will have read 365 books. That is
730 books read in two years and 1,095 books read in three years. Since children generally begin kindergarten
at age 5, there is plenty of time to meet this challenge. Since this challenge is self-paced, you
decided how often you will read together and what books you will read.

Reading together with your child
helps to develop important pre-reading skills that provide a solid reading
foundation which is a key to school and learning success. By reading together, you can create great
memories for both of you as well as facilitating a great opportunity to bond in
another way with your child. If you have
more than one child who hasn’t entered kindergarten, consider reading as a
family to meet the challenge!

Pick up an enrollment kit at the Circulation Desk of the
Library. The kits offer instructions, a
reading log, book suggestions as well as tips for reading to your child.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Movie watching is becoming a popular activity at the Canastota Public Library. So, we've decided to add more movies to the schedule.

On Saturday April 9, bring the kids with their lunches to watch The Peanuts Movie! The movie will start at 12:30pm in our Lawson Community Room. The Peanuts Movie is rated G and stars your favorite Peanuts character, Snoopy with Charlie Brown, Lucy and the rest of the gang!

For our more mature audiences, on Tuesday, April 12 at 6pm, we will be showing Spotlight. Spotlight is rated R and stars Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, and Michael Keaton. This is the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the child abuse, molestation scandal and subsequent cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese. This is the scandal that shook the entire Catholic Church to its core! This movie runs two hours and eight minutes.

Friday, January 22, 2016

We love quilts in the winter months, don’t we? The beauty and warmth of a handmade quilt
reminds us of everything good in the world.
During the months of February and March, you can warm up at the
Canastota Public Library while taking in the beautiful artful exhibit displayed
by the Thread Bears Quilters Guild. The
Guild meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm at St. Helena’s Church
in Sherrill, NY. These lovely ladies
have created the heart-warming quilts that you will find on the walls of the
library! According to their Facebook
page, new members are always welcome.

The month
of February also brings back our regular children’s programming including Baby
& Me Lapsit with Mrs. Angela on Wednesday at 10am and Storytime with Mrs.
Liz on Thursdays at 10am. Both programs
are opened to anyone interested in attending.
Baby & Me Lapsit is geared to children from birth to twenty-four
months of age while Storytime is for the toddlers and preschoolers in your
life. No reservations are
necessary. You can attend every week or
as often as you would like to attend.

Our
volunteer tax consultant, Harry Hood, will be at the library again this year to
help those who are 60 and older with tax services. The hours for tax help will be Friday
mornings beginning February 5th from 9am until noon. Help is offered on a first come, first serve
basis. Select appointments will be available for Friday afternoon time
slots.

For those who
prefer to prepare their own taxes, we do have a very limited quantity of New York
State Tax forms and expect to receive some federal tax forms as well. As in previous years, the state and federal
government are encouraging people to file online. You can always use our available bank of
computers to prepare your taxes online or if you’d prefer, tax forms can be
viewed and printed here at the library. Printing costs are ten cents per page.

The library will
be closed on Monday, February 15 for President’s Day. We will reopen on Tuesday, February 16 for
regular hours.

On Wednesday,
February 17, we’ll be offering a movie day for teens and tweens in grades 6 and
up. We’ll be showing the film, “The
Scorch Trials” at 2pm which is the second movie in the Maze Series. Then, stay for some activities and crafts
until 4:30m.

Our Book Club is
always looking for new members! We meet
monthly, generally on the last Tuesday of the month at 1pm to discuss the
selected book. On February 23rd
at 1pm, we’ll be talking about “Dead Wake” by Erik Larson. The
book is about The Lusitania. It was called the “magnificent ship” standing
seven stories from dock to bridge and consuming 140 tons of coal each day while
just standing still. While some of Britain’s private steamships had been
converted for the war, the Lusitania had no connection with the war. Yet, being
an ocean liner for passengers wasn’t the reason it became an important part of
world history.

If you are
interested in seeing us offer a particular program, please stop by the
Circulation Desk and let us know. We
serve the community and want to be sure we are meeting the needs of our
community! Whether you visit the library
for tax assistance, for a program or to pick up a book to read, we love seeing
you.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Canastota Public Library will show the film, “To Kill A Mockingbird” on Wednesday, January 27 at 6pm in the Lawson Community Room. The movie, shown free of charge, will be shown this month as a part of the CNY Reads One Book program.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a 1962 American drama film based on Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Mulligan. The film was considered to be one of the best films ever made and earned many positive responses from film critics. A box office success, the film won three Academy Awards including Best Actor for Gregory Peck who starred as Atticus Finch. Scout was played by Mary Badham. “To Kill a Mockingbird” will run just over two hours.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is this year’s book pick for all of CNY to read. There is a flurry of activity planned throughout the region surrounding some of the current themes of this classic novel from January through March of 2016.

Monday, January 4, 2016

Libraries are so much more than a
building full of books. A lot of
learning and a lot of living happen here.
As staff at the library, we find that the library has become a community
place. It’s a safe place where people
can find help, change their lives for the better and learn about ways to
improve their lives. Here are just two examples of ways the Canastota Public
Library impacts the lives of the people in our community….

This
fall, a young father with a 16 month old baby stopped into the library. He was
faxing paperwork to the County Social Services Department so he could receive
food stamps for his family. One of our
library staff started a conversation with him.
She told him about our Baby and Me Lapsit program. A session was just starting on the second
floor. It’s a great program for
introducing little ones to the library.
Miss Angela along with the caregivers provide finger plays, songs and
stories to the tots. These are great early literacy lessons designed to help
parents and their children become more comfortable with the library. The young Dad stayed and he and his baby had
a great time! They had never attended
the program before that day and didn’t even know it existed.

On
another brisk autumn day, a husband and wife came to the library for help. Both have disabilities and had just received
legal documents from their attorney that they needed to read and
understand. Since neither could read
well, they brought the documents to the library and asked if someone could read
the documents to them. After we found a
private room, a staff member took about forty minutes to sit and read the
documents. She read slowly and re-read
portions, ensuring that the couple understood the documents.

While
we do offer the opportunity to borrow books, movies, magazines and other
resources, we find that we offer so much more everyday….most importantly, we
offer the chance to provide support, help and hope to many in our
community.

Canastota Library

About Me

I've lived in Canastota for nearly thirty years and am originally from western Pennsylvania. My career has been varied as I've worked in retail sales management, non-profit management, public relations, advertising, and more!